No, Mr. President, compromise is not fundamentally American, belligerence is fundamentally American

Today, during his speech on the budget controversy, President Obama invoked Lincoln to say America is a nation of compromise. Really? Not sure were he got that from but the indigenous people and my African Ancestors tell a very different story.   

Obama's revisionism sounds something like this:

Slave master: We are taking you to America and enslaving you.

African: Lets compromise.

Slave master: OK.

The reality is that Native Americans and Africans experienced unbending denigration and oppression--both of which they fiercely resisted. This nation was built on principles like Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine. "Compromises" like the Tilden-Hayes Compromise and the 3/5ths Compromise perpetuated white supremacy and black subordination.

Also dig:

• Obama Invokes Lincoln To Urge Compromise On Debt Deal (blogs.abcnews.com)
• Is Obama making you feel good about your oppression?
• "When Will We Get Paid?": The Anti-Obama Song
• One Black Man's Critical Notes on Post Inauguration and Black America
• What Obama would have us ignore.  
• Lincoln's Negro Policy by Earnest Sevier Cox (Free Download)

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